Day: 10

They built it to be the world’s fastest wheel-driven car—ever. No rockets. No jet propulsion. Just good old-fashioned, turbocharged American muscle. The Carbinite LSR streamliner looks more like a fighter jet than a typical car, but that happens when you’re building and shaping a Bonneville land speed car designed to go 500 miles per hour.

With all this talk about truck LS engines, I hear a lot of talk about swapping a 5.3L truck LS engine into a car. Why would you want to go from a 350-cubic-inch small block Chevy to a smaller 5.3L engine that is only 326 cubic inches? To me that doesn’t make any sense. I know the